Archive for September 26th, 2007
Sep
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VIA Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of high performance audio silicon, and QSound Labs, Inc., a leading technology developer of audio and voice software solutions, today announced the delivery of a superior sound system for Windows Vista based multimedia, personal and laptop computers. QSound's QHD technology is now available on VIA Vinyl High Definition Audio codecs
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Sep
26
It's the type of bug that, when discovered twenty years ago on the world's leading spreadsheets of the time, generated controversy and sent thousands back to their software stores for refunds: Excel 2007 has a bug with the display of floating-point values, a Microsoft developer confirmed on his team's blog yesterday. BetaNews confirmed the
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Sep
26
Search engine and internet giant Google has announced a new kind of video advertising format for YouTube, to begin next year.
Google acquired the video sharing website last year for $1.65 billion, predicting that video would be the next big thing in internet advertising.
Now Google's Patrick Walker has revealed that the company is working with content providers
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Sep
26
In all the coverage of Microsoft allegedly pushing for a five percent stake in Facebook, there has been next-to-no mentions of Microsoft’s own social-networking platform, Windows Live Spaces.Live Spaces, when it launched as a new and improved version of MSN Spaces, already had 112 million monthly unique visitors and stored 4 billion
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Sep
26
This Technical Brief provides an in-depth look at the features and functionality of Windows Home Server Remote Access. Learn about enabling, testing, troubleshooting, and customizing Remote Access.
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Sep
26
Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday unveiled its new notebooks for gamers that use two Nvidia GeForce 8M graphics processing units (GPUs). With the release of Satellite X205 gaming notebooks Toshiba not only becomes the first notebook maker to install GeForce 8M SLI, but also the first major notebook manufacturer who implemented a multi-GPU technology at all.
“Last year,
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Sep
26
Virtual CD allows you to run CD/DVD applications and music CDs directly from the hard disk - no more need for physical CD drives or the actual CD media. It creates compressed images of CDs on the hard disk and emulates up to 22 CD drives to access and to run applications.
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Sep
26
AMD said Tuesday that it has released and is shipping a limited-edition version of its Radeon HD 2900 graphics card, the HD 2900 Pro.
The card contains 320 stream processors, and ships in either 512-Mbyte or 1-Gbyte configurations. The card is available on a limited basis because of supply constraints, AMD said.
Pricing was not announced, and AMD
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Sep
26
Following the Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition flagship processor, AMD has introduced a 5000+ mainstream version.
Compared to the regular 5000+ chip, the Black Edition comes with the same 2.6 GHz clock speed, 1 MB L2 cache and 65 watt power envelope, but includes a customizable clock multiplier that allows users to adjust the performance of
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Sep
26
As seen from our (VR-Zone) forums, the pricing for the 45nm dual and quad core Penryn processors has been revealed. Core 2 Q9450 seems to be the most attractive with 12MB L2 cache at US$316.
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Sep
26
Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.'s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop.
Yesterday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance notification of its Java SE (Standard Edition) security updates and that it will also scrap its controversial practice of staggering the release of Java patches. Instead,
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Sep
26
Top-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cybercriminals using malware-infected RTF documents disguised as recruitment letters.
Security company MessageLabs reported that 1,100 e-mails containing malware-infected RTF (rich text file) attachments were recorded over a 16-hour period this month. Four separate waves appeared between September 13 and 14, the company said.
"All (the e-mails) were going
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Sep
26
While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we've all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost
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Sep
26
Justin Meyer and Brian Moschel have created an application called Traffik, lists events from Google Calendar and shows the locations of those events in a map. Traffik shows only events with locations.
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Sep
26
Aaron Wall has recently noticed some major changes in the Yahoo ranking algorithm which could have a major effect on sites:
* botching part of a sitewide 301 redirect that they had followed for months - now both sites rank, but each ranks well for some portion of the queries* a bit more weight on
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Random From The Yahoo implements major site ranking changes
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